Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lipped General Shigeru Honjo insisted his troops were moving out "to clear the country of bandits," but added that Chinese evacuation of Chinchow "is now absolutely imperative." Seemingly he thought that Chinchow might be taken without bloodshed, the Chinese soldiers merely scattering like chaff. Cheerily a Japanese aid-de-camp spoke of "taking over Chinchow by Christmas...
...Harte kept culling posies from the rhetorical anthology he considered good writing, not even California paid him much attention. When he began to cultivate his own garden and write stories in the dialect of his adopted State the whole U. S. sat up and took notice. Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure. It begins...
...life of Dostoevsky was closely connected with his work. Epileptic fits, occasional poverty, and a long Siberian exile in a bestial prison camp, made him spasmodically elated or despondent. He discovered in the contact with his fellow prisoners in Siberia, that under a rough exterior many criminals had really extraordinary qualities. He conceived that man might become noble through sin. When Raskolnikov, the young student in "Crime and Punishment," murdered two old women through a Napoleon ambition to transcend all human values at a blow his final defeat was not attributable to the sinfulness of the act, but rather...
During the War he served in France as a driver for the Norton Harjes Ambulance, ended his military career as a private at Camp Devens. In 1922 he published The Enormous Room, a novel of his experiences in a French War prison, considered by most critics one of the few important War books. He followed it in 1923 with Tulips & Chimneys, a book of poems which almost anyone could understand. Then began his soul-searching struggles with punctuation and capital letters, resulting in such volumes as XLI Poems, Is 5, & and the recently published W (Viva). He became a regular...
...graduation from Knox College in April, 1917, when he was too young for a commission, he enlisted as a private. He rose to a sergeantcy, first class, and became senior instructor at the Ordinance Field Service School at Camp Hancock, Georgia. He was transfered to the Field Artillery and after the Armistice was honorably discharged with the rank of second lieutenant. Simpson's ability as a lawyer was well shown by his being able to gain the highest honors in the Law School immediately after spending two years in military training, and among the difficulties of war. His legal experience...